WSET Level 2: What’s in it for you?

Thousands of students around the world are enrolled in this wine course at any one time, with thousands more weighing it up. So what might you be getting yourself into?

For many, this is where you'll first dip your toe into formal wine studies.

And yet it's more than a toe-dip. The Wine & Spirit Education Trust's Level 2 in Wine - subtitled "Looking Behind the Label" - is quite the plunge, exposing you to a broad array of wines and concepts.

I'm an accredited WSET educator and strong believer in this course. It's where I started, and I really enjoyed it.

But this video isn't a sales pitch.

Instead, it aims to give a sober account of the territory you'd cover if you, too, decided to dive on in.

I owe a big thank-you to this group of students (they know who they are!) who agreed to be filmed for this, and to Prince Wine Store in South Melbourne where this intensive course was conducted.